David Rigert
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| Full name | David Adamovich Rigert | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 March 1947 Nagornoye, Kokchetav Oblast, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Trud Shakhty Avangard Dnepropetrovsk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Rudolf Plyukfelder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David Adamovich Rigert (Russian: Давид Ада́мович Ри́герт; born 12 March 1947) is a retired Soviet weightlifter and weightlifting coach of Austrian ancestry. During his career he set 65 ratified world records and won an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and six world titles.
In 1999 he was inducted to the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.